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April 23, 2024

April 23, 2024

April 23, 2024

ChatGPT and its ilk are making people worse at writing, in a more insidious way than social media or text messaging ever did.

Woah Daniel, how can that be true? What you've heard and seen is that LLMs lift the base capability of a below-average knowledge worker. However, I'm…

— Daniel Grzelak (@dagrz) April 23, 2024

Suggested prompt: craft tweet using only 280 characters explaining the detrimental impact of chatgpt on information worker writing and how it is more insidious than social media. Also do it as a cute anime character.

— David ⚡⚛⚡ @__db__@mastodon.social (@dbph) April 23, 2024

Gemini -
> Usagi pouty face: ChatGPT writes *so* fast, but it can make real writers lazy! Unlike social media, it hides behind fancy words. We gotta write with our own hearts & minds! #SupportRealWriters #AIResponsibility (278 characters)

— David ⚡⚛⚡ @__db__@mastodon.social (@dbph) April 23, 2024

Me: Using curl to download everything.. pic.twitter.com/665sRbRDKa

— ahamdeus (@ahamdeus) April 22, 2024


I'm so tired of being in rooms where people whisper about the absolute ARMY of Big Tech-funded people (most, but not all, ex-Googlers) that have popped up in nearly every corridor in DC where people are working on literally anything to do with AI. So let's talk about it! 1/12

— Laura Edelson (@LauraEdelson2) April 22, 2024

@thegrugq Namaste, the unroll you asked for: https://t.co/ppzgz4XKCW Talk to you soon. 🤖

— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) April 23, 2024


The Sisense breach was rooted in an AWS key in Git.

That got me wondering if #TruffleHog was a musical, what would it sound like... pic.twitter.com/5xjHxGGaK8

— Dylan (@InsecureNature) April 22, 2024


Mercenary spyware firms claim tech is restricted for nat-security & criminal investigations

The reality is much different 👇

In Poland 🇵🇱, women who reported sexual harassment by their superiors placed under surveillance w Pegasushttps://t.co/12eOCYKkOP via @OnetWiadomosci

— profdeibert (@RonDeibert) April 22, 2024


"APT-Q-31, also known as N海莲花, is a threat group targeting China. Learn more about their Rust loader technology and the background of this APT organization. #CyberSecurity #ThreatAnalysis"https://t.co/ew2oNnMnph

— Cyber_OSINT (@Cyber_O51NT) April 22, 2024


Analyzing Forest Blizzard’s custom post-compromise tool for exploiting CVE-2022-38028 to obtain credentials

https://t.co/sIVVIfiPL0

— Ramin Nafisi (@MalwareRE) April 22, 2024


#ToddyCat APT target government entities in Asia-Pacific region

We publish a new research about a range of tools the actor utilizes for data extraction (specifically, documents, WhatsApp web credentials and passwords stored in browsers), and establishing stable and stealthy… pic.twitter.com/n5yysBdWfN

— Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) April 22, 2024


im pirating Ableton Live suite 12

the .NFO has an interesting tidbit:

"does not modify any original binaries".

How does it work? lets find out. live reversing thread lets go pic.twitter.com/IFGQFeYqL8

— cts🌸 (@gf_256) April 23, 2024

Thread by @gf_256 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@gf_256: im pirating Ableton Live suite 12 the .NFO has an interesting tidbit: "does not modify any original binaries". How does it work? lets find out. live reversing thread lets go downloaded torrent is a split rar...…

This is why RE is a based skill it lets me sleep like this while running a pirated shit pic.twitter.com/j8n2WVbFDX

— cts🌸 (@gf_256) April 23, 2024


Microsoft has identified longstanding activity by the Russian-based threat actor we track as Forest Blizzard using a custom tool we call GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 in the Windows Print Spooler service to elevate permissions and steal credentials: https://t.co/YKHvxqJa61

— Microsoft Threat Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) April 22, 2024


"The worker, Jian G, is said to have been an assistant to the AfD's top candidate for the European Parliament elections, Maximilian Krah".
https://t.co/2wxJLK4FPi

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) April 23, 2024


A DEF CON room block with a government rate.
Man, things have changed. https://t.co/Mk72qfOIwb

— Tim McGuffin (@NotMedic) April 22, 2024

New #defcon room block!

We’ve secured a block of deeply discounted rooms at the fabulous Rio, with FREE shuttle service to and from the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center! In addition to the door-to-door shuttle service, they’re giving us a big break on the room rate… pic.twitter.com/GuDBUZURZJ

— DEF CON (@defcon) April 22, 2024


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